Ethical Hacking Contracts in the South West

Ethical Hacking
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 144 178
Rank change year-on-year +19 +34 -7
Contract jobs citing Ethical Hacking 4 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.17% 0.35% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.40% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 0
10th Percentile £633 £586 -
25th Percentile £681 £606 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - -
75th Percentile £813 £740 -
90th Percentile £828 £800 -
England median daily rate £563 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +30.00% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £66.25

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Ethical Hacking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,047 2,769 3,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.55% 87.63% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,872 2,471
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £734 £725 £718
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 286 265
10th Percentile £15.52 £20.13 £19.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +36.84%
75th Percentile £70.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.40 £75.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Ethical Hacking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the South West over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethical Hacking in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethical Hacking in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Ethical Hacking in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethical Hacking within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +11 3 £800 -
Dorset - 1 £650 -
Ethical Hacking
England

Ethical Hacking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Audit Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Red Team
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (25.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Qualys
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) F5